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Marsha Kassa Gray AP Lang October 15,2015 White’s Recognition of Life Complication In E.B. White’s essay “Once More to the Lake”, the lakes serves as White’s past and present, and is a reflection of life’s complexity. The essay follows a trail of memories as he and his son come to the lake. While the lake remains unchanged, White will not, and in the end he realizes a fundamental of life: death. The lake is a “dual existence” spending time with his son, and he becomes lost in the setting.…

The essay “Once More To The Lake.”, by E.B White is one of the most compelling essays that I have ever read. At the beginning of the essay we meet White and his son taking a trip to the lake, this is the same lake that the author attended as a child. Throughout the essay you can see that the author is dealing with some inner demons of his own. This essay goes in a non-chronological order of how he daydreams back and forth through the present and the past. The main topic of this essay is that E…

In the article Once More To The Lake in The Blair Reader: Exploring Issues And Ideas, E.B. White told his journey story when he was a kid and an adult. White and his father went on vacation at a lake in Maine in summer. They enjoyed every moment at the lake, except the ringworm attacked them. They went fishing, swimming, and canoeing, they ate food at the farmhouse, and they bought some goods at the souvenir counter. After that, White came back to the lake with his son. Everything at the…

Label Us Angry by Jeremiah Torres shows how difficult it is for oppressed people to breakout of the path or stereotype that society has created for them. Carlos and Jeremiah have very different triggers and coping mechanisms; any one decision can affect a person’s whole life. When we are taken in by a label, we are taken in by opinions and others’ beliefs. Labels categorize, are designed to make you feel like an outsider, become verbal abuse, narrow our perception of someone. Using any word as a…

Poetry seeks to convey a message, whether direct or indirect. As the audience, it’s our job to dissect the meaning in order to fully uncover the emotions that the poem is trying to express. As with all poetry, the poem “The Ache of Marriage” by Denise Levertov, found on page 863 in Volume II, uses aspects of poetry as a tool to assist in communicating her thoughts. Levertov applies the theme of marriage, love, and religion to discuss the up and downs of the institution of marriage. The poem by…

Literary Essay There are two recurring themes shown in Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel, Fever 1793. One is the simple act of being grateful. it is important to stop and think about how lucky you are when someone else is surely in a worse situation. Another common theme is perseverance and the clear effort that the characters show in attempting to survive the fever epidemic. Some can even argue that within perseverance, is selflessness. Appreciation and perseverance are two main…

Theme. A theme describes the message or the lesson that the author is trying to share. In the novel A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, the theme is nature can present many challenges to humans. For example, on page eight it states, “Then she picked up another thorn and used it to poke and prod at the first one. She pressed her lips together against the pain.’’ This shows how Nya stands out from the rest of us when instead of crying to her mom like most of us would, she took another thorn…

Within the poetry I have studied throughout the year, I have found that most poems show feelings of distress, however, acceptance is also present. Bruce Dawe and Kenneth Slessor successfully portray the distress of war in their poems, whereas Sylvia Plath and Wilfred Owen show this feeling through different examples of suffering. Rudyard Kipling and Maya Angelou are two poets who I believed showed their readers how to accept things in life, whether you can influence them or not. These different…

The dead poet society is the story of an english teacher that is trying to get his students to love poetry. Using wird teaching methods John Keating taught his students to follow their dreams. John Keating had self motivation to teach the youth of the nation. He motivated himself to get up everyday, and teach his kids. His motivated his kids to pursue the idea of carpe diem or seize the day. He motivated them to follow their dreams. Near the end of the movie one of Mr. Keating’s students sadly…

American poet Billy Collins (born 1941) has worked to craft a poetic art that is accessible without being sentimental or crass. Named poet laureate of the United States in 2001, Collins became the public face of American poetry and embarked on an ambitious effort to insert poetry--not the teaching of poetry so much as the raw material of poems themselves--into American secondary schools. His own books have enjoyed a rare combination of popular and critical success, selling tens of thousands of…